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CSS How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Adjust the Profile Page and Header

Posted by Emilio Larrea
Emilio Larrea
844 Points

My Navigation list breaks whenever I resize from 480px to 660px

I need help because when I resize it, the Navigation elements pile up together, like the images did. I teid fixing it with nth-child() but it didnt work... I need help.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Emilio Larrea º Developer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,700italic,400italic,800,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Emilio Larrea</h1>
        <h2>Programador</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>  
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul id="gallery">
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> 
              <p>Experimentation  with color and texture</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> 
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> 
              <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt=""> 
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt=""> 
              <p>Creating shape using repetition</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/facetahumana"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="socialicon"> </a>
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FacetaHumana?fref=ts"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png"  alt="Facebook Logo"class="socialicon"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2015 Emilio Larrea.</p>
      </footer>   
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {
  /***********************************************   
   TWO COLUMN LAYOUT
  ************************************************/

  #primary {
    width: 50%;
    float: left;
  }


  #secondary {
    width: 40%;
    float: right;
  }




  /***********************************************   
   PAGE: PORTFOLIO
*************************************************/  


 #gallery li {
  width: 28.33333%;
  } 

  #gallery li:nth-child(4n) {
  clear: left;

  }


  /***********************************************   
   PAGE: ABOUT
*************************************************/ 

  .portrait {
    float: left;
    margin: 0 5% 80px 0;
  }

}  
@media screen and (min-width: 660px) {


  /***********************************************   
   PAGE: Header
*************************************************/ 
  nav {

    background: none;
    float: right;
    font-size: 1.125em;
    margin-right: 5%;
    text-align: right;
    width: 45%;
  }
  mf
  nav li:nth-child(2) {
    clear: left;
  }
}
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

Can you also share your main.css file too please? And perhaps take and share a screenshot if possible.

3 Answers

Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad
14,834 Points
Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad
14,834 Points

Hello Emilio....it's not quite clear to me what you're after here, but perhaps you can add these to your CSS and see if it's more what you were looking for?

header > a { float:left; }

nav ul li {
    list-style-type: none;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 10px;
}
Mitchell Goldberg
Mitchell Goldberg
3,322 Points
Mitchell Goldberg
Mitchell Goldberg
3,322 Points

Are you sure you understand the media query definitions you are using? For example:

Min-width means :Rules applied for any browser width over the value defined in the query.

Max-Width means : Rules applied for any browser width below the value defined in the query.

Take a look at this link: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/layouts/rwd-fundamentals/use-media-queries?hl=en

This might be your issue.

Kavan Bahrami
Kavan Bahrami
8,475 Points
Kavan Bahrami
Kavan Bahrami
8,475 Points

I'm not sure if one of those answered your question, but I think what you're saying is that your nav bar isn't a solid line when you move to the larger responsive view .. at least not immediately.

Portfolio About Contact all in a line, but rather there is a break after About and Contact is underneath.

If thats right, it's in the video like that also. I believe it has to do with the width that we're setting the nav bar to. 45% when the elements are too big to fit in that % of the screen when it's at 660px

I changed it to 47% to fix it.

nav {
    background: none;
    float: right;
    font-size: 1.25em;
    margin-right: 5%;
    text-align: right;
    width: 47%;
  }